I recall reading in Graig Nettles’ book “BALLS” about how after his second season as a New York Yankee in 1974, the stadium was closed for a season for modern renovations. What would you give to be able to go back to a time like that just before the renovations were to take place just so that you could go through the storage rooms and lockers that probably many of which had not been really looked through or even touched for many years by that time? Bet there’d have been all sorts of treasures ranging from uniforms and jerseys to other equipment and even contractual documents that belonged to Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and all sorts of other Yankee legends over those years.
It was actually closed for two seasons, it was weird seeing the Yankees play at Shea. Bobby Bonds played for the Yankees one of those years, you can usually trip someone up if you ask them why Barry Bonds’ dad couldn’t hit any home runs at Yankee Stadium, during his season in pinstripes ;)